Provenance
- Georgian Court, Lakewood, New Jersey, George Jay Gould (d. 1923)
- New York, Duveen Brothers (dealer)
- 1935, acquired from Duveen by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI
- 1971, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
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